Book Review: Glitterati

Simone is one of the Glitterati, the elite living lives of luxury and leisure. Slave to the ever-changing tides – and brutal judgements – of fashion, he is immaculate. To be anything else is to be unfashionable, and no one wants to be unfashionable, or even worse, ugly…

When Simone accidentally starts a new fashion with a nosebleed at a party, another Glitterati takes the credit. Soon their rivalry threatens to raze their opulent utopia to the ground, as no one knows how to be vicious like the beautiful ones.

Enter a world of the most fantastic costumes, grand palaces in the sky, the grandest parties known to mankind and the unbreakable rules of how to eat ice cream. A fabulous dystopian fable about fashion, family and the feckless billionaire class.

Glitterati by Oliver K. Langmead is an absurd dystopia, a world where the fashionable live perfectly posed lives away from the work and troubles of the unfashionables. The protagonists are vain and wilfully ignorant, but there is something compelling about the initially petty conflicts that absorb them.

Weekly Roundup

This week I’ve finished reading four books! I’ve posted two reviews, and did a monthly goal wrap up. Read on to get a roundup for the week and find out what I’m reading!

Book Review: Birds of Paradise

Many millennia after the fall of Eden, Adam, the first man in creation, still walks the Earth – exhausted by the endless death and destruction, he is a shadow of his former hope and glory. And he is not the only one. The Garden was deconstructed, its pieces scattered across the world and its inhabitants condemned to live out immortal lives, hiding in plain sight from generations of mankind.

But now pieces of the Garden are turning up on the Earth. After centuries of loneliness, Adam, haunted by the golden time at the beginning of Creation, is determined to save the pieces of his long lost home. With the help of Eden’s undying exiles, he must stop Eden becoming the plaything of mankind.

Adam journeys across America and the British Isles with Magpie, Owl, and other animals, gathering the scattered pieces of Paradise. As the country floods once more, Adam must risk it all to rescue his friends and his home – because rebuilding the Garden might be the key to rebuilding his life.

Summary: Birds of Paradise stars Adam, the first man, as he joins with the animals he helped name to recover pieces of the garden of Eden in the present day. It is a beautiful exploration of death, grief and immortality, and probably the best book I’ve read so far this year.

Weekly Roundup

This week I’ve wrapped up a book I’ve been reading for about a month, as well as finished reading two more. I’ve started an exciting new book and gone back to a book I left on hold. Read on to get a roundup for the week and find out what I’m reading!